Sabbath

 The Sabbath was given to a free people.  Slaves don’t get a Sabbath.  They don’t get a free day to just be quiet, reflexive, read something that might touch one’s deepest self.  So do you have a Sabbath day?  If so, then you are free.  But going to worship service or reading your bible for an hour, before going off into a frenzy of activity out of perceived need, obligation, or desire to look good is not a Sabbath rest.  Sabbath rest in the modern world is seen as “boredom.”  “Don’t you have something to do?”  You are not very free if Sabbath is the only time you can clean the house.  Maybe we need more prophets who in their lifestyle tell us that we who think we are free, are but slaves.